Open Source Bites Back as China’s Military Makes Full Use of Meta AI

Chinese research institutions with connections to the Chinese military have developed AI systems using Meta’s open-source Llama model. Papers discussing the AI model are unequivocal: the bots have military applications. According to a report from Reuters, six Chinese researchers from three different institutions with connections to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) released a paper about the AI in June. The researchers scooped up Llama 13B, an early version of Meta’s open-source large language model, and trained it on military data with the goal of making a tool that could gather...